Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design (TMFD)

Description: Computer aided design software functions and processes specific to textiles, merchandising and fashion design. Introduction to desgin software at the basic level.

Description: Technical experience in stitch applications, garment construction and finishes and fundamental fit. Experiences in diverse disciplines within the dapartment and their relation to the global texile and apparel professions and industries.

Description: An introduction to animation and design fundamentals and their application in visual communications. Problems and solutions will be explored relative to the needs of various professions that use images and animations to convey meaning.

Description: Analysis of social, cultural, aesthetic, and economic influences on clothing and human behavior.

Description: Analysis of social, cultural, aesthetic, and economic influences on clothing and human behavior.

Description: Describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate two and three dimensional design forms.

Description: Explore color concepts in two and three dimensional formats. Emphasis on applications to visual merchandising, product development, and fashion design.

Description: Develop perceptual and analytical drawing skills through visual problem solving using various media and techniques. Emphasis on developing skills applicable to fashion and textile representation.

Description: Fibers, yarns, fabric construction, and finishes as they affect use and care.

Description: Analysis and evaluation of apparel structure. Design, style, and construction variations as related to quality, price, and performance.

Description: Textile and apparel industry processes. Social, cultural, and economic influences on the industry including entrepreneurship.

Description: Creative experience in apparel design through the use of flat pattern methods.

Description: Drawing garments and the fashion figure. Aesthetic styling and presentation, refining product specifications, and interpretations of current trends. Intermediate application of computer-aided design in flat drawings and visual presentations.

Description: Role and responsibilities of apparel and/or home furnishings merchandisers in a retail operation. Fundamentals of merchandise mathematics and its application to computer technology.

Description: Store and non-store visual merchandising and promotion for textiles and apparel. Includes strategies for branding and target market in both real and virtual platforms.

Description: Acquire expertise in digital techniques for apparel design, including proficiency in digital 2D flat pattern tools and 3D fit analysis for garment creation.

Description: Readings in current literature and individual problems.

Description: Creative experience in designing apparel through the use of draping techniques.

Description: Recent advances in the production and performance of fibers, yarns, finishes and dyes for textile products. Lab experiences designed to familiarize the students with standards, methods and equipment for evaluating textile product performance.

Description: Physical and chemical analysis of textiles using standard testing procedures. The calculation, interpretation, and evaluation of test results.

Description: Theoretical approach to the history of dress from ancient times through the twentieth century; examining dress in the context of social, economic, and artistic development of Western culture.

Description: Textiles in the context of social, technical, political, aesthetic, and economic developments in the cultures of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between social, technical, and aesthetic qualities of textiles, and their tranformations, as well as stylistic similarities and differences across cultural and historical contexts.

Description: Theories and research findings about the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of clothing and appearance in relation to the self and others. Special emphasis will be placed on relationship(s) between the body, dress, and personal and social identites.

Description: Synthesis of process involved in product development from product initiation to the development of market strategies. Career and portfolio development.

Description: Problems involved in consumer decision making, merchandise development and planning, retail strategies, and marketing practices specific to the textile and apparel industry.

Description: Designing apparel, computer-aided design, pattern making, and line development for specific markets.

Description: Small business start-up, launching products within organizations or setting new growth strategies in a short period of time. Emphasis on knowledge of entrepreneurial management and development strategies and growth in team-work settings.

Description: Comprehensive study of issues involved in global sourcing, including the scope, trends, and sustainability of current practices. An analysis of cultural, political, ethical, and economic perspectives related to global sourcing, production, trade and distribution of textiles and apparel products.

Description: Digital and other media for printed textiles. Design development, professional practices, and expressive and communicative concepts.

Description: Application classes of dyes. Physical and chemical properties of dyes within each class, methods of dye-fiber association, fastness properties of dyes, and recommended application procedures.

Description: Advanced work in the creation of apparel as visual communication. Design conceptualization with experimentation in media, structure, technique, and presentation.

Description: In depth analysis of the relationship between material culture and gender roles, categories, and performances. Engages with theoretical frameworks for material culture and gender, as well as topics such as the body, clothing, the built environment, technology and media.

Description: Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Workshops on a variety of topics by department faculty and visiting artists, scholars and scientists. Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Workshops on a variety of topics by department faculty and visiting artists, scholars and scientists. Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: Workshops on a variety of topics by department faculty and visiting artists, scholars and scientists. Opportunity to analyze and evaluate techniques, develop skills, or study topics of special interest.

Description: The textile and apparel industry. Visits to museums, showrooms, manufacturers, retail establishments in major domestic and/or foreign markets such as: New York City, Paris, London, Milan, Prague, Shanghai, Seoul.

Description: The apparel, accessories and soft goods marketplaces and manufacturing throughout the U.S. provide excellent arenas for learning. Short domestic study tours including but not limited to such centers of soft good commerce as Las Vegas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth and other regional locations.

Description: Supervised individual professional experience with a qualified cooperative practicing professional.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production.